Improvement in grain and seed-cleaner



J. SATTISON.

Grain and Seed Cleaner.

Patented Oct. I, 1867.

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JACOB SATTISON, OF llllLEY TOWNSHIP, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO- HIMSELF ANDAMBROSE FRAYER, OF RIPLEY, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. (59,489, dated October 1, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN AND SEED-CLEANER.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

7 Be it known that I, JACOB SATTISGN, of Ripley township, in the countyoflIuron, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Grain and Seed-Cleaner; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and complete description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the cleaner.

Figure 2 is a top view.

Figures 3 and 4: are detachedsections.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the views.

A, fig. 1, is the ease of the mill, in which is hung a bolting-cylinder,13, a detached view of which is shown in. fig. 3. This bolt consists ofan open framework, covered with wire netting O, fig. 3. It will beobserved that one end of the bolt is smaller in diameter than the other,the purpose of which will hereafter be shown. E, fig. 2, is a shell,enclosing a fan, which is constructed in the ordinary way, and driven bya belt, F, passing from the wheel G to the pulley H on the end of thefan-shaft. The bolt-shaft is also provided with a pulley, I, and motioncommunicates to the same by a belt, J, all of which is operated by thecrank K. L is a hopper, into which the grain is thrown. M, the[shake-sieves frames, at the inner lower end of which is attached aconductor, LT, fig. 1, communicating with and discharging into the sideconductor 0, attached to the inside of the door P. The conductor 0 isprovided with a protruding lip, Q, which, on the door being shut, entersthe opening in the end of the bolt, as shown in fig. The relativeposition of the conductor Nis also shown in this figure.

The practical use of this machine is for cleaning grain of foul stall,(as coclcle and clover-seed, chess, and

other seeds, and dirt,) that is found in the grain after itcomes fromthe thresher, and which is accomplished in the following manner: Thethrashed grain is thrown into the hopper L, from which'it falls downupon the sieves M. As the grain falls upon the sieve, the chafi' andlighter sluil' are blown out at the end by the draught of wind from thefan, which is conveyed over the bolt to the sieves. The grain andheavier portions pass down into the conductor T thence into theconductor 0, through which into the belt, which, as the bolt revolves,and being higher at that end for the reason of its being of le sdiameter, carries the grain along through it, and discharges it on theoutside of the machine through the spent-1t, while the small seed andscreenings pass through the bolt and Fall into a screen-box immediatelyunder it, and which box is removed by drawing it out at the front end ofthe mill. By the use of this machine the grain is very thoroughlycleaned, it being fanned and bolted so that no worthless material isfound in the grain after being run through it.

For cleaning grass-seeds, Lko, the coarse wire netting O is removed, anda finer grade, 1), substituted therefor. The seed is then thrown intothe hopper, and run through in the same way as was the grain, the finegrass-seed falling through the sieve into the screen-box bei'orementioned, and the coarser material passing out at the side, as did thegrain.

It will be obvious that any kind of seeds, however fine, can be cleanedequally well by this machine simply by the introduction of netting orgauze, through which the fine seed falls into the screen-box, and thecoarser material being discharged from the end of the same to theoutside.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The belt ll, in combination with the shake-sieves M, conductors N and 0,when arranged and operated conjointly with a fan or blower, in themanner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

JACOB SATTIS Witnesses:

W. H. Bunnloci-z, J. HOLMES.

